The elderly who practice calligraphy in the community elderly care service center
mentioned Chongqing people. Many people’s first impression is that they are young and full of vitality, but in fact, Chongqing is still a deeply aging area. According to the definition of the United Nations, when the proportion of the elderly population aged 65 and above in a country or region reaches 14%, it will enter deep aging. In 2018, Chongqing entered deep aging.
In recent years, Chongqing has made solid progress in solving the problem of urban elderly care, and has made efforts to achieve higher satisfaction in elderly care services through measures such as improving infrastructure, introducing social forces to establish elderly care institutions, and innovating elderly care mechanisms.
Integrated Social Resources Office Embedded Elderly Retirement
"The rice here is delicious and comfortable, only 'a bowl of soup' far away from home (referring to being close to home, it's just not cold when you send a bowl of hot soup). "At Chongqing Shangqing Temple Community Elderly Service Center, 86-year-old Zhou Jiequan ate no leftover lunch.
This dining table is not ordinary. The four corners of the table are arc-shaped to avoid the elderly from hitting the ground, while the four sides are concave into arc-shaped. The elderly can be closer to the table, and two hands can be placed on the two corners next to it. There is also a small sign on Zhou Jiuquan's location, "Hypertension should be light."
Zhou Jiuquan was originally an engineer in a company. After retirement, he and his wife stayed at home to support their elderly care. They believe that nursing homes are inconvenient and it is natural for the elderly to stay at home. However, as he grew older, Zhou Jiequan was a little overwhelmed and it became more and more difficult to cook. In the past, the old couple often cooked a table of dishes, but later there were only two or three dishes per meal. The son and the daughter are also gray-haired. With their own children and grandchildren, it is difficult to take time to take care of them.
strolled around once, and Zhou Jiequan noticed the elderly care service center being renovated in the community. After some inquiries, he decided to try daycare services with his wife.
Starting from August 1 last year, the old couple officially moved in. The elderly care service center is very close to home and only takes 6 minutes to walk. "Four dishes and one soup, every meal is different. I will eat when I pick up the bowl, put down the bowl and take a walk. Everyone eats together, it's very lively!" Zhou Jiequan said. Many elderly people have encountered the difficulties faced by Zhou Jiuquan at that time.
A year ago, this place that made Zhou Jiuquan like was also a calligraphy and painting exhibition hall. Later, it was transformed into a community embedded elderly care service center, covering an area of more than 1,800 square meters, with more than 60 care beds, and has functional areas such as calligraphy and painting reading room, rehabilitation and physiotherapy room, multi-functional activity room, and restaurant. It can provide bathing, rehabilitation, entertainment, and catering for the elderly in the community.
Shangqing Temple Community Elderly Care Service Center is a microcosm of the changes in Chongqing nursing homes. In recent years, Chongqing has vigorously improved the infrastructure of elderly care services and launched the "Thousands of Projects" of community elderly care services. By 2020, 1,000 new community elderly care service stations and 100 municipal demonstration community elderly care service centers. Chongqing focuses on community care, integrates social resources such as idle businesses, state-owned assets and abandoned factories in the community, and encourages the establishment of community embedded care institutions so that the elderly can spend their old age at home. At present, Chongqing has 1,221 community elderly care service facilities, with a coverage rate of 66% and a coverage rate of service capacity exceeding 80%.
Nursing homes should be rated as stars like hotels
"They are old children, I serve them." While speaking, Luo Jianmin, chairman of Chongqing Hongshan Nursing Company, saw an old man having a meal, jumped forward, blindfolded his eyes, "Guess who I am?"
is not just Hongshan. In recent years, the number of nursing homes in Chongqing has grown rapidly, and there are more than 330 legal persons in the city's nursing homes. This is inseparable from the strong support from the government. On the one hand, Chongqing has continuously increased government investment; on the other hand, it actively deepened the "deregulation, supervision and service" reform, canceled the establishment of nursing homes permits, and encouraged social forces to establish nursing homes. In order to attract social forces to invest, Chongqing has implemented tax and fee reduction policies. All nursing homes will reduce the value-added tax by 7%, and community nursing service institutions will pay income tax at 90%, and provide certain discounts in water, electricity, gas, etc.
Zhu Dan, the director of Hongshan Nursing Home, was a head nurse before. Although he had taken care of patients, he was "black" in the operation and management of nursing homes.In 2015, after she took office, the Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau and other relevant departments organized many trainings, inviting experts and industry insiders to explain the operation and management knowledge of nursing homes. "The training is at least twice a year, and I participated in it once in April this year. It was organized by the Civil Affairs Bureau by the Nursing Association."
There are many "novices" like Zhu Dan. Many people are "three lows and one high" - low wages, low education, low sense of accomplishment, and high age. Not only that, but the staff are also tight. To this end, Chongqing has increased its efforts to cultivate talents to ensure the employment needs of nursing homes. Under the leadership of the Civil Affairs Bureau, Chongqing currently trains 500 directors of nursing homes and 2,000 nursing staff every year through measures such as developing professional education, strengthening vocational training, and improving salary and reward systems.
In the training class, Zhu Dan learned a lot of new knowledge - "The towel rack should not be higher than 1.2 meters, otherwise the elderly will easily sprain." "The front of the nursing home should be very flat and the slope should be less than 4 degrees." Afterwards, the city organized several evaluation and inspections, and the same was required.
"The nursing home should be rated as a hotel and should be standardized." According to Pan Hongbin, director of the Elderly Care Department of the Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau, the Civil Affairs Bureau is starting a special action to build nursing home service quality, evaluate and rectify nursing homes one by one, and improve the level of nursing homes. Going further, we must promote the standardization of elderly care services and improve industry standards. To achieve this goal, Chongqing strengthens supervision and inspection of elderly care services. In , , Jiulongpo District, the safety supervision, fire protection and other departments formed a joint law enforcement team and conducted random inspections of Hongshan Nursing Home once a month. "I grabbed it very tightly, but the effect was obvious, and our level improved rapidly," said Zhu Dan.
can accurately match any service you need
On the roadside of No. 25 Songshi Branch Road, , Yubei District, Chongqing, the door sign of "Bailing Bang Longshan Elderly Care Center" is very eye-catching, and there are 5 stars under the door sign. Walking into the hall, 92-year-old Gu Shaofen was sitting in a wheelchair and chatting happily with the caregiver. The old man lives nearby and has difficulty mobility. One of his two daughters is abroad and the other is 69 years old and sick. "I have lived here for two years, everything is fine." The old man wrote to the reporter that in addition to taking care of her diet and daily life, the nursing staff also helped her to treat lumbar spondylosis with hot compresses every day. She also actively participated in various cultural activities held here, "I also teach you to sing."
"There are more than 580 beds here, and all nursing staff are certified to work, implementing one-stop service and family-oriented elderly care." Zhang Xinyu, deputy general manager of Bailingbang (Chongqing) Health and Wellness Industry Group, introduced that the internal hospital area is more than 2,000 square meters, and all categories are available in internal medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, rehabilitation and other categories. In the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, doctor Shuai Xiaoyong is treating 91-year-old Wang Peihui. In the corridor outside the door, 93-year-old Xie Meili was chatting with her son. "The health care and life care of the elderly are very professional here." Xie Meili's son said, "Once a mother fell down, and the nursing staff reminded us to go to a large hospital for examination several times, which is very considerate." The professional nursing home of
is located locally. In the view of Longshan Street, Yubei District, "It is a good thing, but it is far from enough to rely on here alone." In order to meet the diverse elderly care needs of the people, the street has made full use of professional institutions and achieve cooperation and driving. "The street has large community elderly care service centers, and each community has small elderly care service stations. In addition, professional institutions, the three parties work together to complement each other to jointly create a nursing home without walls." Peng Dehai, deputy director of Longshan Street Office, said that the goal is to create a "15-minute elderly care service circle."
In May this year, residents of Longji Community, Longshan Street discovered that a small building with three-story idle office space in the community was completely renovated, with the exterior walls painted, and the inside was also bright, becoming a community elderly care service center in Longshan Street. "The government invested 4.4 million yuan to renovate and introduced Bailingbang Group to manage it, which is more professional and has better results," said Peng Dehai. The reporter noticed that the level of environmental intelligence here is relatively high. The staff said: "There are many disabled people here, which can prevent them from getting lost."
At present, there are 7 built community elderly care service stations in Longshan Street to be put into operation."The site is a supplement to street elderly care services, providing health records, data collection, information, evaluation and daily care for elderly people at home to meet more home elderly care services." The person in charge of Qishan Road Community introduced.
has effectively improved the quality of elderly care services. Not long ago, an elderly man surnamed Zhang injured his eye at the elderly care service center. Under the linkage mechanism, he was immediately sent to the hospital of Longshan Elderly Care Center for diagnosis and treatment; there was no kitchen in the elderly care service center, but by booking with Longshan Elderly Care Center, the elderly can eat delicious meals every meal. "Simply put, it means connecting the resources of each link and accurately matching any service you need," said Zhang Xinyu.
(according to the People's Daily)
